Today with Sean O'Rourke

Cabinet Reshuffle

As the speculation continues on who’ll get what in the long-awaited Cabinet re-shuffle, Sean was joined in studio by former Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, Barry Desmond, Stephen Collins of The Irish Times and Martina Fitzgerald, Political Correspondent with RTE.

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A Wealth of Local History

Who needs to fly to Florence when we have Offaly on our doorstep? Why wend your way to Angkor Wat when we have Waterford?

Sean was joined by Pat Wallace, archaeologist and former Director of the National Museum of Ireland, who argues that are our world-renowned historical and archaeological treasures are all too often overlooked.

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Social Media

The social networking site Facebook has been back in the news for a number of reasons in the past weeks. First, they were found to have conducted an ‘emotional experiment’, manipulating people’s news feeds in order to monitor the effects on Facebook users’ moods.

Now they are offering a new ‘listening’ option which accesses users’ smartphones to collect data on what they are listening to or watching.

Meanwhile in Ireland, a woman won a landmark ruling after an ex-boyfriend ‘vandalised’ her Facebook account.

Sean spoke to Fergal Crehan, a barrister with a special interest in technology and data protection law.

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